FDA Tracking 17 Active Outbreaks

FDA tracking 17 active outbreaks

The Food and Drug Administration has a running account of what is making Americans sick right now. The FDA’s Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table is updated weekly.Right now FDA’s table carries seventeen investigations in its Active section. Run down each file and add the case counts the agency publishes on the individual advisories, and the table describes 7,324 illnesses, 394 hospitalizations where a number is given, and three d…

FDA Has Seventeen Open Outbreak Investigations, 7,324 Sick and Three Dead. USDA Lists Three for All of 2026 and Marks Every One of Them Closed.

Two federal pages carry the running account of what is making Americans sick right now. One is FDA’s Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table. The other is USDA’s Outbreak Investigations: Response table at the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Neither requires a Freedom of Information Act request. Both are updated on a schedule. Read them side by side on a Wednesday in August and you get a picture that neither agency has put into a …